Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management Editors Zhifeng Yang School of Environment Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875, China Fax: +86 10 58800397 Email: zfyang@bnu.edu.cn Sergio Ulgiati Department of Sciences for the Environment Parthenope University of Napoli Centro Direzionale, Isola C4. 80143 Napoli, Italy Fax: +39 081 547 6515 Email: sergio.ulgiati@uniparthenope.it Associate Editors Mark T. Brown Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences University of Florida. Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Fax: +1 352 392 3624 Email: mtb@ufl.edu Biagio Giannetti Paulista University Laboratório de Produção e Meio Ambiente (LaProMA) Sao Paulo, Brazil Email: biafgian@unip.br Bin Chen School of Environment Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875, China Fax: +86 10 58801732 Email: chenb@bnu.edu.cn Hans Schnitzer Institute for Process Engineering Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria Fax: +43(0)316 873/7469 Email: hans.schnitzer@tugraz.at Editorial Board Salvatore Arico Division of Ecological Sciences UNESCO, Paris, France Fax: +33 1 4568 5804 Email: S.Arico@unesco.org Guoqian Chen Dept. of Mechanics and Engineering Science Peking University Beijing, China Email: gqchen@pku.edu.cn Mario Giampietro Institute of Environmental Sci. and Tech. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Email: mario.giampietro@uab.cat Bhavik Bakshi Department of Chemical Engineering The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio 43210, USA Fax: +1 614 292 3769 Email: bakshi.2@osu.edu Francesco Cherubini Dept. of Energy and Process Engineering Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway Email: francesco.cherubini@ntnu.no Helmut Haberl Institute of Social Ecology Alpen Adria Universität Vienna, Austria Fax: +43 1 5224000 477 Email: helmut.haberl@uni-klu.ac.at Enrico Benetto Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies Luxembourg, Belgium Email: enrico.benetto@tudor.lu Brian D. Fath Department of Biological Sciences Towson University Towson, MD 21252, USA Fax: +1 410 704 2405 Email: bfath@towson.edu Gordon Huang Dept. of Environmental Systems Eng. University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fax: +1 306 585 4855 Email: gordon.huang@uregina.ca Federico M. 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Ingwersen Sustainable Technology Division National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US EPA Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA Email:Ingwersen.Wesley@epamail.epa.gov Continued on back materials Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2013 Editors Zhifeng Yang Sergio Ulgiati L&H Scientific Publishing, LLC, USA Publication Information Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management (ISSN 2325-6192 (print), eISSN 2325-6206 (online)) is published quarterly (March, June, September, and December) by L & H Scientific Publishing, LLC, P.O. Box 99, Glen Carbon, IL62034, USA. Subscription prices are available upon request from the publisher or from this journal website. Subscriptions are accepted on a prepaid basis only and entered on a calendar year basis. Issues are sent by standard mail (surface in North America, air delivery outside North America). Priority rates are available upon request. 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